President Biden stated he instructed President-elect Trump to not attempt to settle scores of their first assembly to start out the presidential transition course of after Trump’s victory.
“I used to be very simple with Trump when he received elected. I invited him instantly to the White Home,” Biden said, referring to their Nov. 13 meeting, an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page. “I spent two hours with him.”
“I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores,” the president added.
Biden stated he didn’t get a straight reply from Trump in regards to the settling scores concept.
“He didn’t say, ‘No, I’m going to…’ You understand. He didn’t reinforce it,” the president told Page. “He simply mainly listened.”
He additionally recalled that president-elect Trump praised him, particularly on his work on the economic system.
“He was very complimentary about some of the economic things I had done,” the president stated, referring to Trump, including, “he thought I was leaving with a good record.”
Trump on Monday stated Biden was making the presidential transition troublesome, citing latest govt orders on local weather and different official acts the administration has taken in his final weeks as president.
Biden had introduced, simply two weeks earlier than Trump is sworn in, that he would block new drilling off the complete East Coast, in addition to California, Oregon and Washington state, and block some drilling off Alaska’s coast in parts of the Northern Bering Sea and within the jap Gulf of Mexico.
Trump vowed to undo Biden’s orders after he promised to advertise home vitality manufacturing on the marketing campaign path.
Regardless of the president-elect’s assertion that Biden’s White Home has not been useful in the course of the transition, his incoming chief of employees Susie Wiles has stated in any other case. She instructed Axios in an interview revealed Monday that the White Home has been useful in the course of the transition course of.
Wiles praised Biden’s chief of employees Jeff Zients for his help, saying he “helped us navigate the labyrinth that is the Executive Office of the President” and has “been very professional.”
Wiles and Zients have been additionally within the White Home assembly between Biden and Trump.
